Kosher Hip-Hop
By Adina Rosenthal
There’s a new, up-and-coming Hasidic hip-hop artist on the block. Nosson Zand is a Boston-born musician who takes pride in the positive and...
Six Degrees of Kosher Bacon Contest
It's a behavior every Jewish person has participated, and all of their non-Jewish friends have witnessed. Jewish geography: the game where—without aid of Facebook—Jews who...
The Jew With Two "Beards"
By Steven Philp
To their neighbors they look like every other Orthodox Jewish couple, a man and woman married for five years with two children in...
Singing a New Song
By Steven Philp
It goes without saying that these are trying times. Yet it is in the face of crisis that humankind produces its best music,...
Egypt on the Edge
By Adina RosenthalTensions in the Middle East have sadly reached a familiar high. Recently, Gaza militants ambushed Israeli vehicles in southern Israel near Eilat, killing...
The September/October Issue of Moment
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Adding a Little Color to Summer Camp
by Steven Philp
For centuries Jews have been the target of damaging stereotypes; yet in our effort to battle unfavorable myths, sometimes we overlook our own...
Yizkor Education
By Adina Rosenthal
British historian Sir Ian Kershaw famously wrote: “The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference,” a sentiment that provides...
From the Archives: My House Shall Be a House Of Prayer For All
By Lynne Schreiber
From Moment Magazine, December 2005
One day last summer, as my friend Katie and I sat beneath an umbrella at a sidewalk café sipping...
A Goy in Jews’ Clothing
By Steven Philp
Considering the cultural significance of the kippah, it is safe to assume that an individual who chooses to wear one on a regular...
Israel Boycotts, Now Organic
By Aarian Marshall
Something’s afoot in the Park Slope Food Co-op.
If you are not a local of bourgeois Brooklyn, if the New York Times Metro Section...
Strauss-Kahn—Still Bad For The Jews?
By Theodore Samets
The idea that France was set to have a Jewish president before the United States sounded weird, anyway.
Of course, some might argue that...